Cloud-based machine health monitoring
AssigneeAnalog Devices Global Unlimited Company
InventorsLewis Malaver, David Redmond
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Abstract
Systems and methods for detecting, isolating, and diagnosing machine faults are discussed. An exemplary system includes a network of sensor nodes deployed at machines or machine components to sense information of machine characteristics, and to generate physical or statistical features using the sensed machine characteristics. A cloud-computing device, communicatively coupled to the sensor network, can provide cloud-based services including detecting a machine fault, diagnosing a fault type, or estimating time to machine failure. A user interface associated with a client device can alert a user of the detected fault, such that the user can take preventive actions to minimize machine downtime.
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A system for monitoring machine health condition, the system comprising:
- a sensor network including sensor nodes configured to sense information of machine characteristics respectively from a plurality of machine parts, and to generate one or more features using the sensed information of machine characteristics;
- a cloud-computing device, communicatively coupled to the sensor network, configured to provide cloud-based services including detecting an existence of a fault or diagnosing a fault type associated with the machine parts using the generated one or more features;
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- a user interface configured to alert a user of the detected fault or the diagnosed fault type.
A method for monitoring machine health condition, the method comprising:
- sensing information of machine characteristics of a plurality of machine parts using networked sensor nodes respectively deployed to the plurality of machine parts;
- generating one or more features using the sensed information of machine characteristics;
- generating cloud-based analytics using one or more cloud-based services, including detecting an existence of a fault or diagnosing a fault type associated with the machine parts using the generated one or more features;
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- alerting a user of the detected fault or the diagnosed fault type.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that includes instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- receiving information of machine characteristics of the plurality of machine parts sensed by networked sensor nodes deployed to a plurality of machine parts;
- generating one or more features using the sensed information of machine characteristics;
- generating cloud-based analytics using one or more cloud-bases services, including detecting an existence of a fault or diagnosing a fault type associated with the machine parts using the generated one or more features;
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- generating an alert of the detected fault or the diagnosed fault type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.